from Rasmussen, C.E. 1988. The use of strontium as an indicator of anthropogenically altered environmental parameters. "Proceedings of the Sixth International Coral Reef Symposium," Townsville, Australia, 8th-12th August 1988. pp. 325-330. ISBN 0-7316-5607-5: The use of strontium levels precipitated into coral skeletal material has long been recognised as an indicator of oceanic temperature at ...

We consider weak preference orderings over a set An of n alternatives. An individual preference is of refinement ≤ n if it first partitions An into subsets of ‘tied’ alternatives, and then ranks these subsets within a linear ordering. When < n, preferences are coarse. It is shown that, if the refinement of preferences does not exceed , a super majority rule (within non-abstaining voters) with r...

This paper examines the concept of a combination rule for belief functions. It is shown that two fairly simple and apparently reasonable assumptions determine Dempster’s rule, giving a new justification for it.

— This paper shows why corruption is especially difficult to detect under China’s system of decentralized authoritarian rule, which I call a “rule of mandates.” Local officials must pursue high priority political targets but have immense discretion over which laws to implement. A relative standard for corruption consequently arises since non-implementation of laws may be mandate-serving or may ...

The variance-covariance method is employed at low doses and in radiation fields of low dose rates from an 241Am (4 nGy/s) and a 90Sr (300 nGy/s) source. The preliminary applications and results illustrate some of the potential of the method, and show that the dose average of lineal energy or energy imparted can be determined over a wide range of doses and dose rates. The dose averages obtained ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The most common intravascular brachytherapy sources include (32)P, (188)Re, (106)Rh and (90)Sr/(90)Y. In this research, skin absorbed dose for different covering materials in dealing with these sources were evaluated and the best covering material for skin protection and reduction of absorbed dose by radiation staff was recognized and recommended. METHOD Four material...